This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio # 988

One of the purest ongoing delights of being a rockin’ pop fan is the opportunity to discover sounds you either didn’t know or didn’t fully appreciate. Our friend Mark Hughson has been playing the music of Dog Party on his great radio show Everyone’s Invited(Sunday nights from 7 to 9 Eastern here on SPARK!), and I’ve heard them and liked them. But they didn’t really register in my ADOS consciousness (that’s Attention Deficit…Oooo, SHINY!).

Dog Party opened for CJ Ramone at a show in the Syracuse area last week. I witnessed their set, and made a beeline to the merch table to buy every CD they had available there (four out of the six they’ve released; I’ll grab the first two shortly from the band’s online store at https://dogpartylive.com/). Dog Party consists of two sisters, Gwendolyn Giles on guitar/vocals and Lucy Giles on drums/vocals, creating an energetic pop duo proudly besotted by The Ramones and Wanda Jackson and The Ramones (again), with vocals occasionally reminiscent of Nikki & the Corvettes. This band has TIRnRRwritten all over it, so of course Gwen and Lucy are our Featured Performers this week.

But wait! There’s MORE! New music from Johnathan Pushkar, The Well Wishers, Richard Turgeon, and Stag, representation from our current TIRnRR benefit compilation Waterloo Sunset, and our usual assortment of absolute wow. There’s still a lot out there we haven’t discovered yet, irresistible songs and performers old and new. We’ll keep on playin’ em. The delight remains pure, both in fresh discovery and in appreciation of what we already love. Shiny! And we all shine on.

NEXT WEEK: The return of a beloved annual TIRnRR tradition. Get set to sweat with the 2019 edition of DANA’S FUNKY SOUL PIT!!And this is what rock ‘n’ roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse on SPARK! WSPJ-LP 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/

Fans of pop music will want to check out Waterloo Sunset–Benefit For This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio, a new pop compilation benefiting SPARK! Syracuse, the home of This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. TIR’N’RR Allstars–Steve Stoeckel, Bruce Gordon, Joel Tinnel, Stacy Carson, Eytan Mirsky, Teresa Cowles, Dan Pavelich, Irene Peña, Keith Klingensmith, and Rich Firestone–offer a fantastic new version of The Kinks’ classic “Waterloo Sunset.” That’s supplemented by eleven more tracks (plus a hidden bonus track), including previously-unreleased gems from The Click Beetles, Eytan Mirsky, Pop Co-Op, Irene Peña, Michael Slawter (covering The Posies), and The Anderson Council (covering XTC), a new remix of “Infinite Soul” by The Grip Weeds, and familiar TIRnRR Fave Raves by Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen’s Wheel, The Armoires, and Pacific Soul Ltd. Oh, and that mystery bonus track? It’s exquisite. You need this. You’re buying the digital download from Futuremanand/or the CD from Kool Kat Musik.

Hey, Carl’s writin’ a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)will contain 100 essays (and then some) about 100 songs (plus bonus tracks!), each one of ’em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of songs can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here.